The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a Case Management (CM) intervention in crack users applied in Psychosocial Care Centers - Alcohol and Drugs (CAPSad) by trained social workers, in comparison to CAPSad conventional treatment on 30 and 90 days, considering the following outcomes: treatment retention, abstinence and changes in severity scores of the sixth version of Addiction Severity Index (ASI6) scale. The study hypothesis are: 1) The CM is going to improve the retention of crack users (cases) during the 3-month follow-up compared with usual care (controls); 2)Individuals who received the intervention with GC are going to present a higher rate of abstinence; 3)The summary scores of the ASI6 will be significantly lower in cases than in controls, at the end of 3 months follow-up.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
600
To improve the cases sharing between CAPSad and other health institutions and individuals and increase the strengths of the patient to cope with problems related to the crack use.
The usual treatment used for regular patients of CAPSad
Center for Drug and Alcohol Research (CPAD) of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
RECRUITINGTreatment retention
Time frame: 3 months
Crack abstinence
Time frame: 3 months
ASI subareas scores
ASI (Addiction Severity Index)
Time frame: 3 months
Felix HP Kessler, PhD
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